Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management

Overview

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secret Management provides a centralized service for securely storing, retrieving, and managing passwords, API keys, tokens, SSH keys, and other sensitive data across OCI environments. Secrets are encrypted at rest using OCI Vault keys and protected by FIPS-validated key protection, enabling consistent security controls and isolation. The service supports automated lifecycle operations including configurable secret auto-generation, automated rotation with intervals from 1 to 12 months, versioning for safe updates and rollbacks, and rules for expiry and prevention of reuse to reduce credential-related risk. OCI Secret Management also supports cross-region replication across up to three OCI regions to improve availability and disaster recovery, and integrates with OCI IAM, compartments, tags, and governance tooling for fine-grained access control. Enterprise-scale design features include high availability, regional isolation, zero-downtime versioning, and programmable refresh to reduce manual overhead. The service is highlighted in Oracle communications (including an Aug 14, 2025 announcement about cross-region replication) and is positioned to support automated secret workflows and multiregion deployments without additional service charges for the core Secret Management offering.

Features

  • Secret auto-generation (passwords, SSH keys, random bytes)
  • Secret auto-rotation (configurable intervals: 1–12 months)
  • Cross-region replication (replicate secrets across up to 3 OCI regions)
  • Secret expiry and reuse rules (automatic expiration and reuse prevention)
  • Versioning (maintain and retrieve multiple secret versions)
  • Encryption at rest using OCI Vault keys and FIPS-validated key protection (FIPS)
  • Integrated lifecycle automation (rotation rules, archival, programmable refresh)
  • Fine-grained access control via OCI IAM (IAM)
  • Compartment and tag-based isolation and governance
  • Enterprise-scale design: high availability, regional isolation, zero-downtime versioning

Integrations

OCI Secret Management integrates tightly with OCI Vault for encryption, OCI IAM for fine-grained access control, compartments and tags for isolation and governance, and OCI automation tooling (such as Functions and programmable refresh) for custom rotation and lifecycle automation. It also supports replication across OCI regions for DR and availability scenarios.

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Compliance & Certifications

FIPS 140-2

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